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Product Description: El ambiente nuestro examines in unprecedented depth homoerotic issues in the writing of such authors as John Rechy, Michael Nava, Francisco Alarcón, and Richard Rodriguez. David William Foster explores the important body of writing on these issues that began with John Rechy’s founding texts of Chicano narrative and continues with more recent works such as Jaime Manrique’s Eminent Maricones...read more

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9781931010238 | Bilingual edition (Bilingual Pr, March 30, 2006), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: El ambiente nuestro examines in unprecedented depth homoerotic issues in the writing of such authors as John Rechy, Michael Nava, Francisco Alarcón, and Richard Rodriguez.
9781931010238 | Bilingual edition (Bilingual Pr, March 30, 2006), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: El ambiente nuestro examines in unprecedented depth homoerotic issues in the writing of such authors as John Rechy, Michael Nava, Francisco Alarcón, and Richard Rodriguez.

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9780253001795 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 9, 2012, cover price $80.00

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9780253001894 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 9, 2012, cover price $28.00

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Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780815332282 | Routledge, July 1, 1999, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: First published in 1999.

By Lyn Di Lorio Sandin (editor) and Richard Perez (editor)

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9781403979995 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 30, 2007, cover price $120.00

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Product Description: One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work

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9780472033829 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 10, 2009, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work

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9780472117062 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 10, 2009, cover price $65.00

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Product Description: “While the U.S. immigration ‘debate’ turns strident in media circles, Caminero-Santangelo intervenes with a call to read carefully the more complex stories that define us as human and humane.”—Debra A. Castillo, coeditor of Mexican Public Intellectuals   “This insightful study brings together Latino fiction, journalistic books, and autobiographical accounts to consider how undocumented people are portrayed in the wake of restrictive immigration policies...read more

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9780813062594 | Univ Pr of Florida, June 14, 2016, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: “While the U.

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Product Description: Offers critical perspectives on the many Hispanic authors who have staked out a vibrant and burgeoning presence on the American literary scene. This book includes a chronology, bibliography, notes on the contributors, and an introductory essay.
By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791047866 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Eighteen essays discuss the works of Rudolfo Anaya, Pedro Juan Soto, Bernice Zamora, Fray Angelico Chavez, Ana Castillo, and other notable Hispanic American authors

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9780791076972 | Chelsea House Pub, December 1, 1998, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: -- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

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9780791096239 | New edition (Chelsea House Pub, November 1, 2008), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Offers critical perspectives on the many Hispanic authors who have staked out a vibrant and burgeoning presence on the American literary scene.

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Product Description: This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations...read more

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9780230620650 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2010), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.

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Product Description: Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States...read more

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9780292726406 | Univ of Texas Pr, July 1, 2011, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century.

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Product Description: Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces...read more

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9780813545714 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 15, 2009, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces.

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9780813545721 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 15, 2009, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces.

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Product Description: In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas’ minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm. Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida Maritza Pérez, Ana Castillo, Cristina García, and Julia Alvarez, she argues that the individual harm experienced by Latinas needs to be understood in relation to the collective histories of aggression against their communities...read more

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9780813570372 | Rutgers Univ Pr, July 13, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas’ minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm.

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9780813570365 | Rutgers Univ Pr, July 13, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas’ minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm.

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Product Description: Killing Spanish suggests that the doubles, madwomen and other raging characters that populate the pages of contemporary U.S. Latino/a literature allegorize ambivalence about both present American identity and past Caribbean and Latin American origins...read more

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9781403963949 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 13, 2004, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: In this intelligent monograph for women's studies, literature and Latin American studies, Lyn Di Iorio Sandin asserts that there is a significant ambivalence surrounding identity that is present in the works of Latino writers such as Cristina Garcia, Edward Rivera, and Abraham Rodriguez.

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9780230617513 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 2009, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Killing Spanish suggests that the doubles, madwomen and other raging characters that populate the pages of contemporary U.

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9781560232780 | Routledge, January 1, 2004, cover price $135.00

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9781560232797 | Routledge, January 1, 2004, cover price $62.95

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Product Description: Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable. This volume features the most significant articles including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews to bring together the best scholarship on Latina writers ever compiled...read more
By Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780313348068 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 30, 2008, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable.

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9781403977960 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 12, 2007, cover price $105.00

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9781137299956 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 3, 2013), cover price $31.00

Presents profiles of American writers of Hispanic origins along with criticism of their works.
By Alan West (editor)

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9780684314259 | Atheneum, July 30, 2005, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Presents profiles of American writers of Hispanic origins along with criticism of their works.
9780684312941 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, August 1, 2004, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Presents profiles of American writers of Hispanic origins along with criticism of their works.
9780684312958 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, December 1, 2003, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Presents profiles of American writers of Hispanic origins along with criticism of their works.
9780684312934 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, November 1, 2003, cover price $442.00 | About this edition: Presents profiles of American writers of Hispanic origins along with criticism of their works.

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9780313317934 | Greenwood Pub Group, December 30, 2003, cover price $64.00

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A critical summary of some of the most noted works of Latino literature offers explanation and evaluation of writings by Jorge Amado, Octavio Paz, Carlos Casteneda, and others, and includes authorship dates, character and plot evaluation, and more.

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9780062701060 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A critical summary of some of the most noted works of Latino literature offers explanation and evaluation of writings by Jorge Amado, Octavio Paz, Carlos Casteneda, and others

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